The Charlie Kirk Show - Defunding Harvard + NPR + PBS ft. Russ Vought

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00:00:05.000 Should we defund Harvard?

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00:01:20.000 There's some major news and some swirling news.

00:01:24.000 Around one of America's most powerful institutions, Harvard.

00:01:29.000 Harvard University is, of course, America's most famous university.

00:01:32.000 They have an admission rate of 3.2%.

00:01:35.000 But Harvard is a lot more than just a prestigious school.

00:01:39.000 They are really one of the most powerful institutions in America.

00:01:44.000 Harvard's endowment currently sits at $53 billion.

00:01:48.000 Its annual budget is $63 billion.

00:01:51.000 $6.3 billion.

00:01:54.000 Democrat administrators staffed themselves with faculty and administrators and alumni of Harvard.

00:02:00.000 Elena Kagan, the most formidable liberal Supreme Court justice, was dean of Harvard Law School.

00:02:06.000 Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff, is a Harvard man.

00:02:09.000 Rachel Levine, remember Rachel Levine?

00:02:11.000 Harvard. So was Pete Buttigieg.

00:02:14.000 Harvard has international pull.

00:02:16.000 They've educated the leaders of many other nations.

00:02:19.000 When Russia became capitalist in the 1990s, Harvard was brought in to oversee much of it.

00:02:25.000 And the fact that it went so badly means that many people in Russia see Harvard as essentially having looted their country.

00:02:32.000 So yes, our current quasi-war with Russia may have been brought to you by Harvard.

00:02:39.000 Harvard has a huge amount of power to set the zeitgeist for American academia as a whole.

00:02:45.000 They are far, far more than a school, and they know it.

00:02:50.000 Last week, the Trump administration sent Harvard a letter.

00:02:53.000 It was a long letter with a variety of requests made of Harvard asking if it wants to keep on receiving taxpayer money.

00:03:01.000 The most important of these requests was that Harvard has merit-based hiring and admissions without discriminating based on race.

00:03:09.000 Now, let me just take a pause.

00:03:10.000 We sent billions of dollars to Harvard.

00:03:13.000 Harvard has a $50 billion endowment, which is larger than some countries.

00:03:18.000 Why are we still financing Harvard?

00:03:20.000 Why are we still giving taxpayer money to Harvard?

00:03:23.000 We know that thanks to the 2023 Students for Fair Admission Supreme Court case, that Harvard has practiced egregious racial discrimination for decades.

00:03:32.000 They discriminated against Asians and white people, especially white people from undistinguished backgrounds.

00:03:38.000 The Supreme Court told them, To stop this, that it's racism and that it's illegal.

00:03:44.000 In its letter, the Trump administration told Harvard to obey the court or lose taxpayer funding.

00:03:49.000 Harvard delivered their reply yesterday.

00:03:50.000 No, we will not obey.

00:03:53.000 Their attitude is this.

00:03:54.000 We dare you to stop us.

00:03:56.000 We're Harvard.

00:03:57.000 You would not dare.

00:03:59.000 Well, Trump is daring it.

00:04:00.000 He's already canceled $2 billion in federal grants to Harvard.

00:04:03.000 Now, some judge is going to try to enjoin that.

00:04:06.000 President Trump should and could declare Harvard in violation of the federal civil rights law and cut off all federal funding to the school, which, of course, they are in violation of federal civil rights laws.

00:04:17.000 We need that option to be on the table and ready to be used.

00:04:20.000 Colleges did more than anywhere else to mainstream the idea that it was okay to racially discriminate against white people.

00:04:28.000 In flagrant violation of written federal law and the text of our Constitution, they pushed the idea.

00:04:34.000 That this discrimination was good. 0.97

00:04:36.000 So it was okay.

00:04:38.000 That good discrimination is fine, but bad discrimination, not so fine.

00:04:42.000 It's time to destroy this myth.

00:04:44.000 Utterly and completely.

00:04:46.000 And if we can blow up some of the fattened up far left institutions along the way, so much the better.

00:04:55.000 Harvard University, as we know, is one of the most influential institutions on the planet.

00:05:00.000 To give you an idea of how far to the left it actually is, In 2021, a survey was done of faculty from Harvard University.

00:05:08.000 96% of faculty at Harvard University, 96% who gave political donations, gave to Democrat candidates.

00:05:18.000 Harvard University has a $50 billion endowment.

00:05:21.000 They have a tax-exempt status.

00:05:22.000 They get money for research grants.

00:05:25.000 Why is it as a country, which is $35 trillion in debt, we continue to finance universities that hate us?

00:05:32.000 And what good actually is Harvard University going to keep on doing with our taxpayer funding?

00:05:37.000 The garbage and the nonsense that is being spewed out of Harvard, out of Princeton, out of Yale, out of Brown University, out of Cornell, is noticeable and it's remarkable.

00:05:50.000 And they say, oh, you know, we're a place for rigorous debate and dialogue.

00:05:53.000 Hey, Harvard, I'm about to tweet this.

00:05:55.000 I've been trying to speak at Harvard for years, constantly rejected by the administration.

00:06:01.000 I'm gonna be in Boston in a couple weeks.

00:06:03.000 Will you let me come speak at Harvard?

00:06:05.000 Are you gonna let me film it?

00:06:07.000 Are you gonna let me publicize it?

00:06:08.000 Because these Ivy Leagues don't, when you go do a speech at Harvard, they might let you in in a small little cubby classroom like at Brown, but you can't film it because it might embarrass the students online to show they don't actually know anything.

00:06:20.000 Our favorite school, Hillsdale, has to refuse all federal dollars to carry out their mission.

00:06:27.000 So why can't Harvard?

00:06:28.000 If Hillsdale College, which is a great partner of this program, charlieforhillsdale.com, can be a beast without a single dollar of federal money, why does Harvard need federal money?

00:06:40.000 It's really worth asking, has Harvard just become a Democrat think tank?

00:06:44.000 And if they are, why are they taxpayer-funded entity?

00:06:49.000 Again, their endowment is over $50 billion.

00:06:53.000 They have more money than some small countries.

00:06:57.000 Just so you understand an endowment, that is the cash and capital and asset pile that they are sitting on.

00:07:02.000 They don't need our money.

00:07:04.000 They don't need tuition money, yet they still charge tuition.

00:07:08.000 The reason being is that Harvard has become a hedge fund with a college attached.

00:07:13.000 Are they doing robust research?

00:07:16.000 Maybe in the medical field, maybe.

00:07:18.000 But these are all the same places that stayed silent.

00:07:21.000 During COVID, they stayed silent during Six Feet to Slow the Spread.

00:07:24.000 They stayed silent during the mask yourself while you're alone in a car.

00:07:28.000 They have a major surplus, unlike our government.

00:07:32.000 And if Harvard wants to go be great again, they can go raise the money from their very, very wealthy alumni.

00:07:38.000 So given this ideological capture and the university's vast private wealth, we should cut all funding to Harvard.

00:07:47.000 Period. We should cut all funding to Columbia.

00:07:50.000 We should cut out funding to all of these Ivy League schools, one by one.

00:07:54.000 Brown University?

00:07:56.000 How many unnecessary jobs does Harvard University have? 0.99

00:08:00.000 And this is the way it works.

00:08:01.000 Obama is out today on Twitter defending Harvard, saying, well, Harvard is a wonderful place for rigorous debate.

00:08:07.000 The only debate that is allowed at Harvard is left-wing versus liberal.

00:08:12.000 That is the only debate that is allowed, is you could debate left-wing ideas.

00:08:16.000 Well, how pro-choice are you?

00:08:18.000 Oh well, how pro-trans are you? 1.00

00:08:20.000 Or how open borders are you?

00:08:22.000 But conservative ideas are in no way welcome to Harvard University.

00:08:27.000 It's the epicenter of smugness and elitism.

00:08:32.000 Harvard fired its president once for simply speculating, quote, maybe there are fewer women in science because they like science less. 1.00

00:08:40.000 And he got run out of the institution because of it.

00:08:43.000 Got run out of the institution.

00:08:45.000 Harvard University.

00:08:47.000 Is a great example of how the elites and how the experts protect themselves with a hard to reach, hard to grapple, hard to grasp credential.

00:08:58.000 And that credential is largely subsidized by the American taxpayer.

00:09:03.000 Their most recent president is a fraud who just plagiarized her way to the top. 1.00

00:09:08.000 Utter joke.

00:09:10.000 Again, go raise the money from regular Harvard alumni.

00:09:16.000 And then the tenure of the professors allow them to preach left-wing Marxism with no, no blowback whatsoever.

00:09:24.000 So you put all this together.

00:09:26.000 You ask yourself the question, why shouldn't Harvard have to fund itself?

00:09:32.000 We are a nation far in debt.

00:09:34.000 We shouldn't be funding any of these schools.

00:09:36.000 And Harvard University, with a $50 billion endowment, they're now trying to play the victim.

00:09:41.000 Harvard says, oh, you know, we don't.

00:09:43.000 You know, we don't have the ability to continue.

00:09:44.000 How about you go sell some stock, sell some buildings out in Cambridge?

00:09:48.000 No more is the U.S. taxpayer going to fund your racket.

00:09:52.000 Call Harvard.

00:09:53.000 The protection shield of the elites that have gotten almost everything wrong over the last decade.

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00:11:07.000 There was some breaking news yesterday with Steve Witkoff returning from Russia.

00:11:11.000 Now, I have all the faith in the world that President Trump and his team are going to be able to hopefully get as close as one can get to a peace deal.

00:11:20.000 And I don't want to overly black pill.

00:11:22.000 And black pill, to be perfectly honest with you, is a term that the kids use to say it's a little bit of a heavy or depressing take.

00:11:31.000 But I don't get the sense that Russia is running to the table.

00:11:37.000 Russia is winning this war because of how terribly Joe Biden managed this whole calamity.

00:11:44.000 We're in a position right now where...

00:11:48.000 Russia is holding the cards and Ukraine is not. 0.90

00:11:51.000 And Vladimir Putin knows that.

00:11:53.000 Putin knows that the American appetite to fund Ukraine is nothing, as it should be, by the way.

00:11:58.000 And therefore, Putin's like, well, we have an appetite to keep this war going.

00:12:02.000 You have to remember that the Russian view of war, they have a normalized view of long conflict.

00:12:09.000 It is part of their culture.

00:12:11.000 It's part of their being.

00:12:13.000 The war of attrition is a...

00:12:16.000 A Russian mode of existence. 0.88

00:12:19.000 You raise young men and you send them to the military and they're part of the meat grinder and you do it all over again. 0.98

00:12:24.000 It's brutal.

00:12:25.000 It's somewhat medieval.

00:12:28.000 It's impressively patient.

00:12:31.000 And we in the West view every human being made of the image of God.

00:12:35.000 Russians don't really believe that.

00:12:37.000 I mean, some of them are Christians, but they're statists first and foremost. 0.95

00:12:40.000 They are loyal to country.

00:12:43.000 They're loyal to...

00:12:44.000 The oligarchy, they're loyal to the idea of the big Russian family, the great Soviet experiment.

00:12:52.000 Less Soviet, but more Russian. 0.55

00:12:53.000 And so they just keep on feeding the meat grinder.

00:12:56.000 It's not a strategy based on instant gratification.

00:12:59.000 And so I'm starting to see some things in the press reports that are a little concerning that this thing might end up going on.

00:13:07.000 By the way, you've got that lunatic Zelensky that doesn't want peace at all. 0.92

00:13:11.000 You've got a problem across the board.

00:13:13.000 This is Trump envoy Steve Witkoff saying that his meeting with Vladimir Putin lasted five hours.

00:13:19.000 If President Trump is able to get this done, he and his team all deserve Nobel Peace Prizes.

00:13:25.000 You got so many different layers of motivations, of revenge.

00:13:33.000 You got different layers of elements of the deep state of the Russian government.

00:13:39.000 Playcut 164.

00:13:40.000 This is the third meeting I've had with him.

00:13:42.000 This last meeting lasted close to five hours, and it was a compelling meeting.

00:13:48.000 And towards the end, we actually came up with, and I'm going to say finally, but what Putin's request is to have a permanent peace here.

00:14:01.000 So beyond the ceasefire, we got an answer to that.

00:14:05.000 So let me compliment the Trump administration here, and they deserve a ton of credit.

00:14:09.000 In the last week, they did two things that were categorically verboten or forbidden based on the D.C. manual of warmongering and neoconservative geopolitics.

00:14:22.000 They sat down with the Iranians and they sat down with the Russians.

00:14:27.000 Good on them.

00:14:28.000 You always should talk to your adversaries, regardless of what you're going through.

00:14:33.000 Always try to find out if there's a place for reconciliation, back way of channeling for prisoner swaps, whatever it might be.

00:14:41.000 We finally got Putin's demands for permanent peace.

00:14:47.000 Now, if I were to conjecture or speculate what they are, again, I have no inside information at all.

00:14:53.000 This is just guessing based on public reports and knowing a little bit about this conflict.

00:14:58.000 Vladimir Putin is going to probably want almost all the land of eastern Ukraine buttressing up to probably near to Kiev.

00:15:06.000 Putin is likely.

00:15:07.000 Going to want a guarantee that Ukraine will never be part of NATO.

00:15:12.000 He's going to want Crimea to be officially recognized as part of Russia and probably many other contentions and demands.

00:15:20.000 And then it's going to be on the Ukrainians to see whether the Ukrainians are willing to actually broker peace, to come to the table. 0.83

00:15:28.000 It's very much an evolving situation.

00:15:29.000 It is very, very difficult.

00:15:32.000 I do not envy the Trump team.

00:15:36.000 At all.

00:15:37.000 I do not envy the Trump team for having to negotiate this.

00:15:40.000 And God bless Steve Woodcoff for going into that circumstance.

00:15:45.000 And both sides need to be willing to come to the table and broker peace.

00:15:49.000 To cut a deal that is the better for humanity.

00:15:52.000 Because we're about to enter another summer killing season.

00:15:56.000 We have to have a good baseline to start negotiating.

00:15:59.000 Which is this.

00:16:00.000 We want peace.

00:16:02.000 We want the war to end. 0.94

00:16:03.000 We'll see who actually believes that.

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00:17:10.000 The stakes in front of us, we have to be able to find hundreds of billions of dollars of spending to cut.

00:17:17.000 But there are also elements of spending that...

00:17:21.000 Quite honestly, have a disproportionate impact on the American body politic.

00:17:25.000 It's not going to get us to a balanced budget, but it requires courage.

00:17:29.000 It requires resolve.

00:17:31.000 We're going to talk to Russ Vogt about this in just a second.

00:17:34.000 And put simply, it really is the Trump administration who is planning to deliver on yet another campaign promise to cancel all public spending on PBS and NPR.

00:17:44.000 Now, that's a billion dollars a year just to make sure that we can...

00:17:49.000 Make sense of this.

00:17:51.000 NPR and PBS receives $1.1 billion a year.

00:17:57.000 Why can't NPR just go raise money from all their donors?

00:18:00.000 In fact, I'm still old enough to remember when they used to do their little telethons.

00:18:05.000 Remember those, Blake?

00:18:05.000 The NPR telethons?

00:18:07.000 Hello. Welcome to NPR.

00:18:10.000 Give us $3.

00:18:11.000 And you get to get a tote bag.

00:18:12.000 You remember the tote bag?

00:18:13.000 But the point being is that so many of this...

00:18:17.000 So much of the media landscape is not funded by the government.

00:18:21.000 Why is it that predominantly left wing outlets receive money from the taxpayer?

00:18:27.000 I've dealt with NPR.

00:18:29.000 They've written a lot of stories about Turning Point USA.

00:18:31.000 They are unbelievably unfair.

00:18:34.000 They are wildly and comically to the left.

00:18:38.000 Let's play cut 152.

00:18:40.000 Do you think the white people should pay reparations?

00:18:42.000 I have never said that, sir.

00:18:44.000 Yes, you did.

00:18:45.000 You said it in January of 2020.

00:18:47.000 You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America, yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt, yes, reparations, yes, on this day.

00:18:56.000 I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

00:18:59.000 What kind of reparations was it a reference to?

00:19:01.000 I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

00:19:07.000 That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

00:19:11.000 That is the CEO of NPR.

00:19:13.000 And just from a more practical standpoint, the articles are super to the left.

00:19:17.000 Okay, we got Russ's vote.

00:19:18.000 Russ, welcome to the program.

00:19:19.000 Russ, tell us about the cuts the Trump administration is recommending when it comes to NPR and PBS.

00:19:25.000 Welcome to the program.

00:19:26.000 You bet.

00:19:27.000 Thanks for having me, Charlie.

00:19:28.000 President Trump and the White House are sending up to Congress, when they get back in two weeks, a proposal to cut a billion dollars for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting that's predominantly NPR, PBS, which isn't just leftist indoctrination, where you're not covering the Hunter Biden laptop or the fact that the Wuhan lab leaked the coronavirus, 0.83

00:19:52.000 But you're actually on the forefront of the cultural revolution in this country and pushing programmatic coverage to children about drag queens, dividing us, doing documentaries about white privilege and reparations.

00:20:06.000 And then on the other hand, we have $8.3 billion in doge cuts to USAID, which is all the things that we've heard.

00:20:17.000 Everything from paying for Sesame Street in Iraq to voter ID in Haiti to just flat-out pushing of an LGBTQ movement in all of these countries, strengthening the resilience of these movements, programs like Being Gay in the Caribbean.

00:20:35.000 Over and over, when you scratch the surface of all of these programs, literally, development assistance, economic support, all of the programs at USAID, you found this funding of a leftist NGO operation that was pushing

00:20:51.000 a very, very woke cultural agenda.

00:20:55.000 We're sending that up to get rid of it, make these cuts permanent.

00:20:58.000 They've been on hold.

00:20:59.000 We want to make them permanent.

00:21:00.000 And we need Congress's vote in this particular set of funds to do so.

00:21:04.000 So in order to make this permanent, what number is that?

00:21:08.000 The doge cuts are what, $8.3 billion to make it?

00:21:12.000 But there's also the larger issue of rescission.

00:21:15.000 Walk our audience through that, please.

00:21:17.000 Sure. And this is just the first of a series of rescissions bills.

00:21:20.000 As we get comfortable with what's the annual amount of permanent savings that can be done, and if it's multi-year money, we're going to go ahead and send those up, so long as Congress is actually going to be passing those.

00:21:31.000 That's critical.

00:21:33.000 We have executive tools that we can use if Congress is not going to pass these bills, but they've been demanding them.

00:21:41.000 The process is one of an exception or a procedure in the Impoundment Control Act, and you and I know and are not big fans of the Impoundment Control Act and how it has bound the president.

00:21:53.000 Correct. But there is a process, it's called a fast-track procedure, to give an up-or-down vote in both the House and the Senate without concern with regard to the filibuster that will allow this to be voted on in the House and the Senate.

00:22:05.000 And leadership of both parties has said, look, we're going to get this thing passed.

00:22:10.000 up when they get back formally.

00:22:12.000 They need to be there to receive it.

00:22:13.000 And then we'll start working with them to get the votes to get this thing through.

00:22:18.000 The other element of this, of course, is the USAID cuts.

00:22:21.000 The elements of this are rather remarkable.

00:22:24.000 I mean, it's from the United States African Development Foundation to the Inter-American Foundation, which has small grants to grassroots civil society organizations in Latin America, the Democracy Fund, $83 million to benefit

00:22:40.000 LGBT

00:22:41.000 We have no evidence of this, but you have to wonder how much of this Actually ended up coming back into American-affiliated politicians or their allies.

00:22:53.000 It sounds very, very suspicious.

00:22:55.000 However, Russ, walk us through this.

00:22:57.000 I know this is actually breaking news.

00:22:59.000 Tell us more about these rescissions when it comes to the USAID and the foreign aid rescission package.

00:23:06.000 Well, I think the reality of these rescissions is that, you know, I think we all think that government is too big and it has been for quite some time, decades.

00:23:16.000 But the. 0.80

00:23:17.000 When you see the fine print, when you see what the contracts are, and you see what we're funding, you come away with this aha moment, this realization, of course these countries think worse of us and dislike us because we're funding this kind of garbage in their countries.

00:23:33.000 We would not accept or we shouldn't be accepting, and part of the Trump administration is to push back and make sure domestically we're not funding this as the Department of Education or USDA.

00:23:43.000 But then you add the fact this was our foreign policy.

00:23:46.000 This is our foreign policy to fund, quote unquote, the resilience of the queer and trans sex movement in other countries.

00:23:53.000 Like what on earth are we doing?

00:23:56.000 And of course, that's going to have an implication as to whether these countries are listening to our interests.

00:24:03.000 And of course, it has led to great.

00:24:05.000 We would be concerned if we were their citizens with it.

00:24:09.000 And so one after another, all we did, Charlie, is we took straight doge cuts, contracts, grants.

00:24:21.000 So I think the debate is very simple on the Hill.

00:24:24.000 Do you stand with us against these ridiculous items?

00:24:28.000 The president would call them fraudulent, or not?

00:24:32.000 Or are you going to say that there's some issue with regard to these cuts, that we should actually be in the business of this?

00:24:38.000 And I think it's going to be a very important debate.

00:24:40.000 It's the first in a series of rescissions packages that we will, in fact, send.

00:24:45.000 Depending on how successful it goes, we'll send more.

00:24:48.000 So let's close with this.

00:24:50.000 Let's talk about the work to balance the budget.

00:24:53.000 By the way, that's huge news, everybody.

00:24:54.000 It's major news.

00:24:55.000 You heard it here first.

00:24:56.000 In closing here, Russ, what is the call to action for the audience to be able to get us closer and closer to a balanced budget?

00:25:04.000 Because the spending fights are going to be enormous.

00:25:06.000 There's a lot of Republicans on Capitol Hill that do not want to accommodate spending cuts.

00:25:11.000 They're okay with trillion-dollar deficits.

00:25:13.000 They're okay with baseline budgeting.

00:25:16.000 So Russ, Walk us through the call to action and the other places, the other pressure points that we are going to put Congress on notice that we demand spending cuts.

00:25:27.000 Final thoughts, Russ, vote.

00:25:29.000 Final thoughts is that obviously economic growth and tariffs, but spending reductions and spending restraint is an enormous part of what's necessary to balance the budget.

00:25:38.000 That's in two components, right?

00:25:39.000 That's the first part is going after the woke and weaponized and wasteful bureaucracy.

00:25:44.000 That is what we're doing with these doge cuts.

00:25:46.000 That's what we'll be doing with rescissions.

00:25:48.000 And that will be, over a 10-year period, incredible amounts of money.

00:25:52.000 And I think the most important, because that's the federal government that you and I interact with.

00:25:57.000 That's the one.

00:25:58.000 That is kind of aimed at us, increasingly less so with President Trump, but we want to make sure that the bureaucracy can't reconstitute itself later in future administrations.

00:26:09.000 Secondly, there are reforms to welfare and to we would call them mandatory programs that have made the social safety net a benefit hammock.

00:26:19.000 And that is keeping people out of the workforce and leading to less growth.

00:26:24.000 And that's the kind of thing that we will need to tackle within the concept within the construct of reconciliation.

00:26:29.000 So when we do the one big, beautiful bill, there will be a conversation about extending the tax cuts and securing the president's new tax cut commitments from the campaign, also designed to get people to be able to work more and not be penalized for it.

00:26:45.000 But we will also be pushing for mandatory savings, reforms to these programs that generate a ton of money that I think will unlock the votes to be able to get to.

00:26:54.000 And that's what really we're working on last week.

00:27:07.000 Russ Vogts, live from the White House, absolute rock star, Director of Office of Management Budget.

00:27:11.000 Great job, Russ.

00:27:12.000 Talk to you soon.

00:27:13.000 Thanks so much.

00:27:14.000 Thanks, Charlie.

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00:28:10.000 On Thursday, we're going to the legendary Pullman, Washington.

00:28:14.000 You know, a lot of people...

00:28:16.000 When they save up for retirement, they say, I want a vacation in Pullman, Washington.

00:28:20.000 It's just like a real, it's a real destination.

00:28:25.000 No, not trying to make fun of Pullman, Washington, but if you've ever driven from Spokane, Washington, down to Pullman, it is objectively one of the most barren terrains in the country.

00:28:40.000 It's almost like laughably ugly.

00:28:46.000 Because it's hills that are just like barren, dark, black hills.

00:28:52.000 Or like brown hills.

00:28:53.000 They have a name for it.

00:28:55.000 What is the name of that whole sector there?

00:28:57.000 Nothing against the great people of Pullman, but it's Palouse.

00:29:01.000 Thank you.

00:29:01.000 Yeah, that's what it is.

00:29:02.000 Yeah, that's where Emma's from. 0.94

00:29:03.000 She said it's actually some of the most fertile soil in the country.

00:29:06.000 Then why do you need phosphate?

00:29:08.000 Glycophate. Why do you need it, Emma?

00:29:10.000 But not exactly, let's just say, Hawaii.

00:29:16.000 So we are going to Washington State University.

00:29:19.000 New story.

00:29:20.000 Washington State professor has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a student with a MAGA hat.

00:29:28.000 It's pretty remarkable, actually, when you think about it.

00:29:31.000 So it's a professor.

00:29:32.000 This guy had to go prove his dissertation.

00:29:35.000 A communist faculty member of the Washington State University faculty was arrested after allegedly assaulting a student for wearing a MAGA hat.

00:29:44.000 In February, Washington State University junior Jay Sani was getting takeout in Pullman in the historic College Hill District when he was allegedly ambushed and assaulted by Patrick Mahoney and Jared Hoff.

00:29:58.000 Can you guys see why I'm making a little fun of Washington State here?

00:30:01.000 As Sani was headed home with a sandwich, surveillance cameras captured the vicious beatdown in front of the Coug, a popular campus bar.

00:30:17.000 Well, Sonny,

00:30:33.000 let me tell you this.

00:30:37.000 You are welcome to come up to the front of the line at our event in...

00:30:42.000 Beautiful Pullman, Washington.

00:30:44.000 The land of Emma and other great folks and great patriots.

00:30:48.000 And we will get you a signed free MAGA hat of your choosing right there in Pullman, Washington.

00:30:55.000 But understand that violence is the default tool of the political left.

00:31:03.000 Violence, according to the media, they say, oh, it's a right-wing phenomenon.

00:31:07.000 That is a brazen, absolute lie.

00:31:12.000 President Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts.

00:31:15.000 Nearly every cabinet official receives death threats.

00:31:18.000 We get death threats on almost a daily basis.

00:31:21.000 Luigi Maggioni is celebrated as a hero of the left.

00:31:24.000 Former Washington Post reporters say that he was a morally good man.

00:31:28.000 Left-wing arsonists are firebombing Tesla facilities across the country.

00:31:32.000 Hundreds of thousands of dollars have flowed into Carmelo Anthony's legal defense fund for murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

00:31:40.000 In fact, Carmelo Anthony with a K is now off on house arrest.

00:31:45.000 He's at home.

00:31:46.000 Our Turning Point USA chapter president at the University of Texas-Dallas was just slammed in the head with a bike lock by a trans student. 1.00

00:31:53.000 Antifa just destroyed another Turning Point USA tabling event with Brandon Tatum while assaulting our students at UC Davis.

00:32:00.000 The Democrat Party has a paramilitary arm where they resort to violence first.

00:32:04.000 If it was not for our amazing security at Boise State or at Washington State, they would come and they would try to hospitalize us and try to murder some of our kids.

00:32:12.000 That is 100% the truth.

00:32:14.000 Absent police and absent security, the paramilitary arm of the campus left would try their best to try and do the most amount of harm against us.

00:32:22.000 But CNN says that it's all right wing.

00:32:26.000 Playcut 189.

00:32:27.000 While America's roots are soaked in bloodshed, violence in the country today is mostly from right wing extremism.

00:32:35.000 From Oklahoma City to Charlottesville to January 6th, there is simply no equivalent on the left.

00:32:44.000 There's simply no equivalent on the left.

00:32:47.000 Really, how about, I don't know, everything that happened during Floydapalooza and Black Lives Matter.

00:32:52.000 All of the campus violence that we have cataloged.

00:32:55.000 That is outright chilling Soviet propaganda.

00:33:00.000 That is Mockingbird Media level stuff.

00:33:03.000 That is, you have to wonder, and actually I want your opinion.

00:33:07.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:08.000 Email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:10.000 What is more dangerous?

00:33:11.000 It was actually a debate I had with myself before I went to bed.

00:33:14.000 This is why I have to use Z-factor to get to sleep.

00:33:19.000 What is more dangerous?

00:33:20.000 If CNN said that and they didn't know the truth, meaning that they were lying but they didn't know it, is that more dangerous, meaning that they were naive?

00:33:30.000 Or is it more dangerous that they knew they were lying and they lied anyway?

00:33:33.000 What is actually more dangerous for society?

00:33:36.000 Is it more dangerous for society, for a group of people, or for a person to say something even though They think they're right, and they don't know any better.

00:33:46.000 Or is it better for society, for somebody, to know the truth, to know what they say is, oh, there's no right-wing equivalent, and then to not tell the truth?

00:33:56.000 I think it's dreadfully more dangerous, infinitely more dangerous, to know the truth and suppress the truth and still lie.

00:34:05.000 I think that is repulsive moral character.

00:34:09.000 And that is the left.

00:34:11.000 That is CNN.

00:34:12.000 There's no right-wing equivalent.

00:34:13.000 I could list off a hundred examples.

00:34:18.000 The left resorts to violence as a primary political aim.

00:34:21.000 It has always been that way.

00:34:24.000 We remain the party of free speech and dialogue.

00:34:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:28.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 15, 2025

Defunding Harvard + NPR + PBS ft. Russ Vought

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